What do we do with the phone-hacking press?

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In a week when the family of Milly Dowler is believed to have been offered £2 million (with another £1 million to go to charity) and the Metropolitan Police sought a court order to force The Guardian to reveal its confidential sources, issues of privacy, the press and the public interest are still the hottest of topics.

So a debate this week chaired by Des Hudson, chief executive of the Law Society of England and Wales, at its headquarters in Chancery Lane was well-timed. It also served to highlight the minefield to be trod by Lord Justice Leveson in his

Court of Appeal
Published: March 3, 2015
In re M and Others (Children) (Abduction: Child’s Objections)
Before Lord Justice Richards, Lady Justice Black and Lord Justice Ryder
Judgment: January 27, 2015
When a court was determining whether, for the purposes of article 13 of the
Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980,
a child who objected to being returned to his country of habitual residence
had attained the age and degree of maturity at which it was appropriate to
take account of his views, the exercise required was a straightforward
examination of whether the terms of the Convention had been satisfied
without the use of any technical subsidiary tests